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Example:
Two templates:
(1) foo
(2) bar

http://yoursitename/foo

in foo you have:
{embed="bar"}

The template hit count goes up for ‘foo’ but not ‘bar’.  Is there a way to have all embedded templates’ hit counters increment?

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I understand that in many cases, this would probably not be desirable.  So it should probably be a parameter of embed, i.e. {embed="bar" increment_hit_counter="true"}

If I wanted to build an extension for something like this, is that even possible?  I don’t see a low-level enough hook that would let me inside the template tag parsing.  I was thinking if I could add custom code at parse time for “embed”.  I don’t know.

Any thoughts?

-Aaron

Using {embed} does not increase the hit counter as you have seen. Since it is most often used for parts of a page that are not called on their own, like headers, footers, common sidebars and the like, this behavior makes sense. I am not aware of a way to change that easily. Consider using “proper” templates and only embedding the common elements to get around that.